Continuing Education participated in a Spelling Bee sponsored by the San Diego Council on Literacy. The CE team included Cat Prindle, Neill Kovrig, and Jamila DeCarli. The team made it to the fifth round and conquered words like soliloquy, plateau, and allegro.
03/27/2012
This year's event, The African American Experience: Dreams in Action was held at the Educational Cultural Complex. Continuing Education faculty, staff, students, and community members were enlightened by the poetic renditions and biographical sketch of keynote speaker Dr. Dorothy Smith who grew up in the segregated South of the 40s and 50s. Dr. Smith has had a distinguished
03/12/2012
A group of 30—including ASB student representatives, instructors, counselors, deans, administrators, and members of the Diversity Committee—attended a three-day intense training to help fight bias and hate crimes on Continuing Education campuses. The Stop the Hate training facilitators led the group through discussion, activity, statistics, and group presentations over an
Continuing Education received top honors at the MLK Parade on Sunday and our students could not be more proud! The Grand Sweepstakes Award is the grand-daddy of all awards in the Dr. Martin Luther King Day Parade. The professional judges, many who come from other parts of the state, had more than 100 parade entries to judge. Fortunately, in the end, our handmade student CE
01/18/2012
L to R Former Continuing Education student and professional chef Ricardo Muñoz Zurita with Martha Stewart and Instructor Marilyn Biggica. When Ricardo Muñoz Zurita, a former Continuing Education student and professional chef, invited his former instructor Marilyn Biggica to meet well-known TV personality and chef Martha Stewart, Biggica did not imagine she would possibly begin
01/04/2012
A ‘topping off” marks the point when a structure’s highest element is hoisted into place, a practice that started in Scandinavia over 1,000 years ago. Upon reaching the highest point, workers traditionally put into place a small evergreen tree as a symbol of good faith and good luck. Builders, administrators, faculty, and staff celebrated the “topping off” of the new
12/12/2011
San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) instructors Corinne Layton, Eileen Schmitz, Leah Haeber, and Steve Gwynne attending the annual CATESOL conference. Dr. Anthony E. Beebe, President of Continuing Education was a keynote speaker and presented a workshop, in addition to many other members of SDCE. California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL) is a
Abel Gutierrez has been employed in the food industry for ten years, but it was more than his experience that led him to his current job. Hired by Hilton Hotels as a Banquet Cook, Gutierrez estimates he was in a pool of more than 20,000 applicants. In order to compete, Gutierrez made the decision to increase education and job training skills by completing a Culinary Arts
11/09/2011
A Mature Workforce Committee has been developed in collaboration with San Diego County Aging and Independent Services, San Diego Workforce Partnership, and other community partners. The committee strives to further the interest of mature workers by promoting a link between employers, recruiters, and educators. It also seeks to expose older adults to available educational
Vocation vs. AvocationCareer Counselor Expert Gives Students Sound Advice for Job HuntingSAN DIEGO—“I admit it,” says Doug Elliot, Career Counselor at San Diego Continuing Education, “I’m too tightly strung to have a hobby.” Elliot has multiple jobs, but only one that pays.At work I’m an adult education career counselor. At home I’m a bricklayer, tile setter, gardener,
05/19/2011
